Holden McNeely and Jake Young are your guides on a psychotropic journey into the secret origins of nerd culture. Fill your ears with education each week as the hosts tackle subjects from the worlds of comic books, video games, anime and film. Untold stories, bizarre facts and crazed deconstructions will fly at you at dangerous speeds, do not listen if you are pregnant or nursing. Make no mistake, this IS the sweatiest podcast in human history.
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Apr 22, 2024
Mystery Science Theater 3000
01:23:31
This week janitor turned human experiment subject Holden and Crow T. Jakebot find themselves trapped by the Gizmonic Institute and forced to dig through the history of the classic American TV series Mystery Science Theater 3000!
This week Holden and Jake cover an ancient battle that has raged on with an undying fire and dates back to an early birthing period of a long forgotten race of Humans known as "Zoomers". This week on Wizard and the Bruiser it's time to size up the home console titans, it's PlayStation vs Xbox BABY!
This week Holden and Jake dawn their deep sea diving suits and risk dying of the bends as they are joined by renowned Snorkspert and Snorkstorian Henry Zebrowski for a deep Snrorkious journey into the Snorky depths of the Snorktackular Snorklanric Ocean of Snorkery as they Snork the SNORKS.
1997 Holden w/ tag misprint and Jake, the OJ Simpson in the Slammer Pog, gear up for a doubleheader as they explore the shortlived baby gambling craze that was quickly banned in schools and Ty Warner's 90's collectible icon that led to literal chaos in stores (plus at least one man to murder), we're talkin' Pogs and Beanie Babies!
This week somebody stop THEM! Holden and Jake are sssssmokin'! their way into the 90's classic that had us all longing for zoot suits once more, The Mask!
This week Holden and Jake hop on a train to Midgar once again to prep for the impending release of Final Fantasy VII Rebirth by covering 2020's Final Fantasy VII Remake, the long awaited and possibly alternative universe update to 1997's Final Fantasy VII!
This week Holden and Jake are joined by Kate Goldbeck (author of 'You, Again: A Novel') to discuss the thing that's brought us the Ranma ½ Lemons of the 90's, the legendary 'My Immortal', a Star Trek tale that got a ton of copies of a fanzine burned, and much more in this deep dive into what can finally bring Scorpion and Sub-Zero together, Fanfiction!